The Albany High School teacher dropped a track last week called "Stop This Madness!" It drips with the anger and anxiety of an experienced educator who wants the state Education Department to hit the pause button on standardized tests and teacher evaluations. He starts out by taking aim at no less than Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who famously declared he was the student advocate in Albany.

It's one thing to be a face in the sea of frustrated people at a rally, as Dudley will be on Saturday when New York State United Teachers holds a massive rally at the Capitol. It's another to blast it out in an aggressive song that has the potential to catch fire among the growing number of those angry at the state public education system. Dudley will also do that on Saturday, when he performs "Stop This Madness!" to a crowd that is expected to top 10,000.

"Out of touch and out of tune we under teach and over test,

while cutting funding in the very places that we should invest,

everyone including kids can't help from feeling over stressed,

So tell us how and why with kids in mind this system is what's best."

Dudley, who uses the stage name Origin, brings his considerable talent and expertise to the song.

He's been named Albany's top rapper by the newsweekly Metroland a number of times and he taught for years at an elementary school located in one of the poorest corners of Albany.

Dudley, 36, is also a unique educator, one who has organized cultural exchanges with some of the less diverse school districts in the region, so that the students could collaborate with and meet children whose lives are profoundly different than theirs.

He's now teaching Albany high educators how to better use technology in their classrooms.

Dudley's new album is called "Highly Effective" — the highest rating a teacher can receive under the evaluation system — and it comes out in September.

He said he had to write the song because he is sick of years worth of teacher bashing, where the complex problems that plague urban schools are placed solely on educators.

"It comes from watching what is happening to teachers and wondering how it's best for children," he said.

A few students at Hoosic Valley High School won't be happy when they get their yearbooks this year. Someone — and the school is not saying who — substituted snarky IDs in place of some students' names in a caption for the school's varsity indoor track team photo.

The book went to print and now the volumes are circulating around the school — and a photo of the page has been making the rounds on Facebook this week.

In the corrupted photo caption, instead of being named, three teammates were identified as "Isolation kid," "Creepy smile kid" and "some tall guy." A few others are identified as "someone."

That's quite a way to tarnish someone's high school memories. School administrators would not return calls for comment, but it's hard to imagine the yearbook editors responsible for entering and proofreading the information on that page wouldn't get into trouble.